Just far too many garden tomatoes. Made pico.
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Leave 1/3 of the elderberry canes this year so we actually get some flowers/berries to harvest I said. Hahahahha.
Annual garlic harvest
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Two of the paw paws on one of our newer trees.
Seems like we will finally see the fruits of our labor after 6-7 years!
Pawpaw fruits are ephemeral as fuck.
Two of the paw paws on one of our newer trees.
Seems like we will finally see the fruits of our labor after 6-7 years!
First pick, an heirloom Pink Beefsteak. Got this plant from my inlaw’s greenhouse, it’s already six feet tall.
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Been pretty lazy about posting in here. Here's what I grabbed this evening
Cucumbers came on strong and I've been harvesting 2-4 per day the last few days. Trying to pace myself with harvesting the onions, but most of them at gonna need to come out soon. I reduced the # of summer squash plants to 3 this year, which has kept the volume manageable. Starting to get a ripe tomato here and there, and I'm guessing we'll have a steady stream in the next few days probably.
Slow start to the year, but things seem to be picking up finally.
Cucumbers came on strong and I've been harvesting 2-4 per day the last few days. Trying to pace myself with harvesting the onions, but most of them at gonna need to come out soon. I reduced the # of summer squash plants to 3 this year, which has kept the volume manageable. Starting to get a ripe tomato here and there, and I'm guessing we'll have a steady stream in the next few days probably.
Slow start to the year, but things seem to be picking up finally.
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Been getting a giant zuke a day for the past 3 days.
Red raspberry season is winding down and I am truly sick of picking berries everyday for the past month+, so that is nice.
Last kale harvest today and it got yanked. Maybe we will plant some more for fall in a few weeks.
Tomatoes...are coming, eventually.
jmaul
But I don't have allergies.
So, finally getting to some shishitos. I'm a wimp when it comes to heat. After researching the pepper, first found that I didn't need for them to ripen to red, and that they were mild, sweet, and grassy. Sounds great, let's make blistered shishitos!
Well, there's no mild, no sweet, no grass. I must be a spice wimp.
Lmao. Only one in 10 is supposed to be hot.
So, finally getting to some shishitos. I'm a wimp when it comes to heat. After researching the pepper, first found that I didn't need for them to ripen to red, and that they were mild, sweet, and grassy. Sounds great, let's make blistered shishitos!
Well, there's no mild, no sweet, no grass. I must be a spice wimp.
jmaul
But I don't have allergies.
That's why we're thinking we are weaklings on the scoville scale.
Or, I got hoodwinked on the plant label at the garden center. Below are pics of the devil plant.
Some of them look the wrong shape like it crossed with another pepper.That's why we're thinking we are weaklings on the scoville scale.
Or, I got hoodwinked on the plant label at the garden center. Below are pics of the devil plant.
jmaul
But I don't have allergies.
For clarification, in the one pic there is a red chile to the lower left and a cubanelle to the right. I have no idea what I'm doing. Is there a possibility they cross pollinated? The shishito characteristics of thin skin, 2-3" long, bumpy, green to brown to red all fit. My daughter has a couple friends that are die-hard spicy fans. Gonna have them taste. I just really wanted this to work as an appetizer.
Cross pollinating would impact the genetics in the seeds of the peppers growing this year, not this year's peppers themselves. There are a couple (circled) that look pretty perfect to me. Not that it's not done, but I've never seen shishitos served red and when we grew them last year I always harvested them green. Maybe they get hotter the more they ripen?
shishitos are round bottomed peppers like the one below your hand. The one in your hand in the reference pic is a pointy guy. Same with that real red one on the right. I guess that plus you saying they were all spicy is what made me ask if there isn’t another pepper in there.
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2 things:
So, finally getting to some shishitos. I'm a wimp when it comes to heat. After researching the pepper, first found that I didn't need for them to ripen to red, and that they were mild, sweet, and grassy. Sounds great, let's make blistered shishitos!
Well, there's no mild, no sweet, no grass. I must be a spice wimp.
In my experience shishitos are one of those peppers where the capsaicin levels are heavily associated with increased carotenoids. (Turning red)
Shishitos can get pretty hot in the right weather. Too hot or water stressed will increase their heat by a decent amount.
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We have grown shishito peppers for a number of years. A thing to consider...we have noticed that instead of 1 in 10 peppers being the spicy, rather it is 1 in 10 of the pepper plants being spicy. Most years we wouldn't get anything spicy at all, while the ones we would get at Trader Joe's would fit the 1 in 10 bill much better. Never mattered if there was red on the pepper or if it was all green.
If that is a shishito plant without any hybridization, it's possible that you got "lucky" with a hot one.